BREAKING! Lionel Messi is the Best, says FIFA
Beats Ronaldo & Van Dijk
FIFA on Monday confirmed that Lionel Messi is the current best men player in Football.
The football governing body has also settled for Rapinoe as the best female player in the round leather game.
Other winners including the current best coach emerged at the Best FiFA Award held on Monday night.
See the details in summary.
Summary
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- Messi beats Ronaldo & Van Dijk to best men’s player award
- Rapinoe takes women’s award – England’s Bronze on shortlist
- Klopp named best men’s coach ahead of Guardiola and Pochettino
- Alisson wins best goalkeeper award
- Neville pipped to best women’s coach by USA’s Ellis
- Leeds boss Bielsa wins fair play award after allowing Aston Villa to score unopposed
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp on Monday night won the men’s coach of the year at the Best FIFA Football Awards in Milan.
Klopp was one of three Premier League bosses to be nominated for the award, alongside Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola and Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino.
Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotsports in the UEFA Champions League final in June and came second in the Premier League in 2018/2019.
The Reds have also won all six league matches at the start of 2019/2020.
“It is great, nobody expected this 20, 10, five, four years ago that I would be standing here,” Klopp said upon receiving his award.
“We know what an incredible job you Mauricio Pochettino did and what Pep did. I have to say thank you to my outstanding club Liverpool FC.
“To the owners thank you, they gave me an incredible team. I have to thank my team – as a coach you can only be as good as your team is. I’m really proud of being manager of such an incredible bunch of players.
“This is an individual prize, I don’t 100% understand individual prizes, I’m here for a lot of people.”
Megan Rapinoe has been named the Best FIFA Women’s Player ahead of USA team-mate Alex Morgan and England’s Lucy Bronze.
She won the gong with 46 per cent of the ranking points, ahead of Morgan (42 per cent) and Bronze (29 per cent) while England striker and Bronze’s team-mate Ellen White was voted tenth overall.
Two of The Best
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FIFA FIFPro Men’s World11
Here they are! The 11 stars that earned a place in the FIFA FIFPro Men’s World11 2019 are:
- Alisson 🇧🇷 (GK)
- Matthijs de Ligt 🇳🇱 (DEF)
- Marcelo 🇧🇷 (DEF)
- Sergio Ramos 🇪🇸 (DEF)
- Virgil van Dijk 🇳🇱 (DEF)
- Frenkie de Jong 🇳🇱 (MF)
- Eden Hazard 🇧🇪 (MF)
- Luka Modric 🇭🇷 (MF)
- Cristiano Ronaldo 🇵🇹 (FW)
- Kylian Mbappe 🇫🇷 (FW)
- Lionel Messi 🇦🇷 (FW)
Over 23,000 professional players placed their votes for the line-up, in which
Sergio Ramos has been included for the 10th time in his career and a ninth straight year, following his inclusions in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. The Real Madrid captain becomes the Spaniard to have featured on the highest number of occasions, exceeding Iniesta’s nine-year record.
Marcelo makes the team for the sixth time, after having been included in 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Modric, meanwhile, as been recognised in each of the past five editions, whilst Hazard again features after having made the line-up for the first time last season.The full FIFA FIFPro World11 2019 line-up is as follows: Alisson, De Ligt, Van Dijk, Ramos, Marcelo, De Jong, Modric, Hazard, Ronaldo, Messi and Mbappé.
Lionel Messi
| Nationality: Argentinian Club: Barcelona Age: 32 |
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| The case for: |
| Won La Liga and helped his side reach the Champions League semi-final and Copa del Rey final. |
| Claimed European Golden Shoe as continent’s top goalscorer and was La Liga’s top assist-maker. |
| Helped Argentina to bronze at 2019 Copa America. |
Cristiano Ronaldo
| Nationality: Portuguese Club: Juventus Age: 34 |
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| The case for: |
| Won Serie A and named the league’s most valuable player. |
| Finished as club’s top goalscorer in all competitions and won Italian Super Cup. |
| Helped Portugal win Uefa Nations League as top goalscorer in the Nations League finals. |
Virgil van Dijk
| Nationality: Dutch Club: Liverpool Age: 28 |
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| The case for: |
| Won Uefa Champions League. |
| Named the PFA Player of the Year and Premier League Player of the Year. |
| Helped the Netherlands to Uefa Nations League final. |
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